Thursday, June 13, 2013

Winsley Wants GOP Chairman Post

Take any group of political activists, put them together for
a few years, shake well and you will get a brass band marching in several
directions to the beat of each individual drum. This pretty much describes the tendency
of any party central committee where entropy is king. Entropy, the inherent
dissipation of useful energy, is a part of the natural process. In any machine,
even a party machine, the accelerations of shocks of the moving parts
represents what the mathematicians call losses of “moments of activity.”

The Republican Party in Connecticut has been missing “moments
of activity” for quite some time. Many people, perhaps unjustly, point to party
chairmen, convenient scapegoats, as being chiefly responsible for an entropy
that left unchecked may ultimately result what physicists call “the state of
maximum entropy,” which is a euphemism for – death.

There are three things the Republican Party must do to win
elections: 1) get votes, 2) get money and 3) refine its message in such a way
as to achieve 1 and 2.

Wayne Winsley, a motivational speaker and former radio host
who waged an unsuccessful battle to unseat U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro in 2012,
thinks he might be able to get it done for Republicans, and to this end he has announced
his intention to seek the GOP chairman post, now held by Jerry Labriola. The Republican
Party Central Committee vote for its chairman will occur on June 25 in Bristol.

“I am seeking the chairmanship for one reason and one reason
only,” Mr. Winsley said in his media release, “to help turn the Republican Party
into a winning party once again.”

“As Republicans, we
don’t need to change who we are, we just need to get better at telling people
who we are and take that message to all of Connecticut’s voters. I believe that
I am the best person to lead our party in this direction.”

Mr. Winsley vowed to “unite the different points of view
within our party, energize our base and grow our party by aggressively
marketing the Republican brand in every district and neighborhood” in the
state.”